OPAKI AND KOPUARANGA NEWS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5194, 29 November 1895, Page 2

OPAKI AND KOPUARANGA NEWS.

From Our Own Correspondent, Thursday, Rain! well it is simply horrible! nothing but rain all this month of November; it has been raining or making big attempts to do so. The snjall sheep farmers up this way are cursing their luck in great §ty|e. There is no mistake, it is putting both shearers and farmers, apd everybody else in a fix, for people expect better weather this time of the year. Talking of sheep, I hear that a great many small owners have had very poor musters, sorno flocks of throe or four hundred being from 50 to 150 short.

The Opaki poncert in nid of t|ie School library, comes oil qn Friday the 29th, and is goinsf to he well patronished I believe, At least I near that a lot of tickets have been sold, so we may expect a success financially. Messrs A.McLeodandCo.are about to lay down about two and a-half miles of tramway across the Opaki plain into Mr Cook's bush, having procured the right of same for milline; purposes, I believe rimu and white pine are the principal timbers, This moans a great boon to local peopleas this mill would be very much missed if it knocked off cutting, as nearly everyone wants a little timber at one time or another. It also means a new lease of life to the employes of the firm, who numbor eleven men. They, with thoir families, are depending on this mill for a livelihood. Messrs MoLeod & Co. deserve great credit for their enterprise, for it means no slight expense, laying a tram such a distance; and it is to be hoped that they will reap the benefit.

The milk supply of the Kopuaranga Dairy Factory, is slowly increasing, but still the supply is not #8 large as it should be. • '■ ! Mr' H, t; Jackson has sold a small farm of 52 acres at Dreyertonj to aMasterton man—Mr E.Dowher, I am pold 'that' ho intends building on it at once, ana shifting up here. I wish him success. ' " '